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Interlingua
Noun
decentia (plural decentias)
- decency
Latin
Etymology
From decēns + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
decentia f (genitive decentiae); first declension
- decency, comeliness, becomingness
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
decentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of decēns
References
- “decentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.